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As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by emmo »

elevaet wrote: post #562
lovehashbrowns wrote: post #371

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I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living. Particularly when it just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. The world around you revolves around people that clock in and out day after day. Maybe one day we’ll have 7.5 billion CEOs in the world, huh?

Completely agree about not putting people down. But I do think the world is a better place with more "CEOs" running independent taco joints, and less Tacobells.

And these independent taco joints would be staffed by...?

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Post by emmo »

bun_at_work wrote: post #225
com2kid wrote: post #178

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> Coffee? every day is fine /r/nootropics, common thread is as follows: OP: "Help, I have bad anxiety every day, what should I take for it?" re: "Do you drink coffee?" OP: "Yes, about 4 cups a day." re: "Stop drinking coffee and come back in a week and tell us how you are doing." 1 week later. OP: "My anxiety is gone!!" Caffeine has negative side effects. For some people those side effects are really bad. Also caffei…

Just piggy-backing on this comment; a great book about sleep is Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. The author does seem to fall into the "everything is a nail when all you have is a hammer" trap, but they do know a lot about sleep and the points in the above comment are backed up in the book with solid studies and references. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

As a bit of a caution on the book, it's probably worth a look at this article: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

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Post by wruza »

emmo wrote: post #611
elevaet wrote: post #562

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Completely agree about not putting people down. But I do think the world is a better place with more "CEOs" running independent taco joints, and less Tacobells.

And these independent taco joints would be staffed by...?

AI/ML, AR/VR, IoT, blockchain, microservices, data science, API, of course.

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Post by diffeomorphism »

coding123 wrote: post #151
spywaregorilla wrote: post #139

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Most people can handle it. But that still doesn't mean everyone should do drugs.

You're saying that if everyone in the world started to take cocaine daily, a high percentage of people, say 80-90% can handle it.

Wrong way around. If everyone in the world consumes something and side effects are very rare and usually mild, then you have to argue what the problem is.

For cocaine and most "hard drugs" probably neither is true. For coffee it seems both are true. For alcohol 1 is true and 2 is tricky.

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Post by unicornporn »

cpeterso wrote: post #493
akpa1 wrote: post #194

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Post by elevaet »

emmo wrote: post #611
elevaet wrote: post #562

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Completely agree about not putting people down. But I do think the world is a better place with more "CEOs" running independent taco joints, and less Tacobells.

And these independent taco joints would be staffed by...?

The CEO him/herself, and some employees who are working for cool boss with their hands on the tools, instead of some suit from Tacobell.

Nothing wrong with working for someone, that wasn't my claim.

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Post by braindead_in »

monktastic1 wrote: post #386
worker_person wrote: post #336

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Watching your child being content to work at Taco Bell for the next 50 years is not something to be proud of. Regardless of contentment.

Everyone is focusing on whether being content with working at Taco Bell is sufficient in life, but I think the more interesting question is whether they truly are content. That's not for me to answer, but if the South Park quote has any truth (and I think it has more than a little), in 50 years' time, they themselves might not be happy with how things went in retrospect. In that case, it's possible they weren't reall…

> but I think the more interesting question is whether they truly are content.

That's a big rabbit hole right there. Ancient wisdom says that there's nothing in the material world which can give you true happiness/contentment/satisfaction. The world is transient and so is the happiness you get from it. Moksha/Nirvana/Samadhi is the only way to become truly happy, forever.

Weed invariably leads you to such questions. No wonder it's the gateway drug to spirituality.

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Post by Planktonne »

aerostable_slug wrote: post #224
barbazoo wrote: post #163

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I can't really relate to this. There is a spectrum of how high you get. Maybe we should distinguish between getting super stoned, just sitting on the couch watching TV and smoking half a joint, going for a walk in nature and listen to music or cook or bake.

With psychedelics some refer to a "museum dose" — that amount you can use that would allow a person to visit an art museum and enjoy the experience. There are similarities with cannabis and other drugs (including alcohol of course). That said, sometimes a little dab is enough to throw things off — fun story: I was practicing the Filipino Martial Arts and my teacher had a hit off a blunt some fellows practicing kinda-…

> a "museum dose" — that amount you can use that would allow a person to visit an art museum and enjoy the experience

This feels sad to me, and sounds like another angle on the same issue raised above.

You should be able to enjoy/engage with culture while sober; I'd describe needing to be high to connect with art as a dependency and a problem.

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Post by autoexec »

a9h74j wrote: post #603
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> An infinite amount of possible achievements is no excuse not to strive for anything. If they're striving for happiness and they are happy, mission accomplished right? I assume they'd still have their own goals and hobbies outside of work or things which bring in money. Why assume those things don't matter?

FWIW, I have heard it said that the people who always expected to work at hourly-wage level are happier than the the college graduates next to them who didn't.

I'll bet the lack of so much student debt helps a lot!

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Post by 2-718-281-828 »

txsoftwaredev wrote: post #525
2-718-281-828 wrote: post #488

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not sure what stereotype you have in mind but I don't see why this should be something keeping a parent from being proud. it's simple, yet honest work and that's about it. so what? not everybody wants or has to be a surgeon ffs

But taco bell is the pinnacle of your kid's career ambition? I know as a parent I'd be very disappointed.

if "career ambitions" are a major part of how you value your children then you are the one with a problem.
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